The naval forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have no plan to carry out live-fire exercises in the Strait of Hormuz as reported by some media outlets earlier this week, an Iranian official told Reuters on Sunday. Iran’s state-run Press TV reported on Thursday that the force would carry out the exercises in the Strait of […]
On March 16, 2017, Anil Ambani, an Indian billionaire closely associated with Narendra Modi’s BJP government, sent financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein a message that the “Leadership” was asking for his assistance in connecting with senior figures in Donald Trump’s orbit ahead of an upcoming state visit by the Indian prime minister. Ambani texted Epstein, […]
By the time Japan announced that its defence budget would reach the NATO benchmark of 2 per cent of GDP, the fiction of postwar pacifism had already collapsed. What remains is the shell of Article 9, which is still inked into the constitution but is being steadily hollowed out by reinterpretation, legal manoeuvres and geopolitical […]